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Definition of Insheathes
1. insheathe [v] - See also: insheathe
Lexicographical Neighbors of Insheathes
Literary usage of Insheathes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Modern Medicine by Julius Lincoln Salinger, Frederick J. Kalteyer (1900)
"Intussusception consists in the entrance of one portion of the intestine within
another by an infolding of the bowel so that the external fold insheathes ..."
2. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray, Henry Vandyke Carter, Luther Holden (1878)
"Latterly English authors have, unfortunately as I think, followed the German
anatomists in calling the tubular membrane which insheathes the individual ..."
3. A Manual of the Anatomy of Invertebrated Animals by Thomas Henry Huxley (1888)
"Each ambulacral nerve is accompanied by a neural canal, which, however, insheathes
the nerve, and does not merely lie on its inner side.1 The only known ..."
4. A Guide to the diseases of children by James Frederic Goodhart, Louis Starr (1885)
"The natural tendency of every intussusception is to become nipped at its neck by
the bowel which insheathes it, ..."
5. Modern ophthalmology by James Moores Ball (1908)
"THE CAPSULE OF TENON, or oculo-orbital fascia, insheathes all the organs which
pass through it, forms an acetabulum in which the ..."
6. A Text-book of Physiology by Isaac Ott (1907)
"The covering of areolar tissue which insheathes the fasciculi of the muscle is
spoken of as the perimysium. The latter, a septum from the epimysium, ..."
7. The Anatomy and Histology of the Human Eye by Abraham Metz (1868)
"... which rests on it, and (partly insheathes its fasciculi ; portions of it are
attached to the cellular tissue immediately in contact with the skin of the ..."
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